> >I completely agree. That is why I was suggesting that a new list be > >created for the dot net beginner. I see a lot of traffic from folks > >coming over from VB that are just learning the ropes. At least 50% of > >the traffic on this list should be posted to the Advanced list and this > >list should be focused on the folks asking how to databind controls and > >how to set focus to a control. > > > >By doing it this way, people such as yourself could basically ignore the > >beginner list (unless you wanted to be a mentor to the new developers) > >and focus on the advanced list. > > If you ask me, you killed your own suggestion with a beginners mailing- > list in your second paragraph, especially with your comment in the > parenthensis. It's a fact that the number of experienced and qualified > .net developers wont mentor/help on the beginners-only list, thus you > will end up with a blind leads the blind situation which will just > result in cross-posting to get the kin dof help you are looking for. > > What this mailing list needs is to stay in it's current form and shift > over to a newsserver instead. I'm using the daily index version of this > list becuase of the huge amount of traffic and I'm on a 56k modem. If > people only had to download the header of each message and then the > message body of only the post they are intressted in (like I do with > the indexed subscription here) then the traffic would be reduced.
I like the nntp approach but one look at the msnews* newsgroups will let you know that is not the entire answer. Every time I check out those groups I get frustrated because I wade through about 30 "how do I set the backColor of a CommandButton" that each have a title of "How do I...." before I find messages that are of some interest. NNTP is nice but signal to one is noise to anther. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
